I thought I had lost the chapter when my computer broke down. It's taken me a while, but here you go. Chapter 11 of HOM. Hope you'll enjoy it, and I apologize for taking that long again.The party's only started.

"Let me get this straight!" Mariku growled. "The Dark Lord wants the secret of our magic, but either he doesn't know we have it, or he doesn't even know we exist. So he's searching for information."

Yami nodded. "He obviously knows something about the Items at least. I mean, he's attacked Isis, who holds the Tauk, Kaiba, whose face is on the Ancient Tablet, Jounouchi, probably because he's very close to Yugi, and finally our hikaris. I wouldn't be surprised to hear Pegasus was also attacked."

"That doesn't really help us, you know? It's been three months since the last attack we know of. If he's been searching for information, who's to say he hasn't discovered our existence yet?" Bakura crossed his arms as he leant back against the headrest, eyes narrower than usual. "And we still have no idea what those Death Eaters did to our Lights."

The three darker halves lapsed into silence. Night had fallen hours ago, but there was still a lot of activity in the castle. Some of the older students still had armfuls of homework to finish. Others, like the yamis, had too much on their minds to be able to sleep peacefully.

Madam Pomfrey had managed to repair the bones in Marik's arm in less than half an hour, and had given them a healing ointment for his back. She had wanted him to stay overnight, insisting he needed some rest after having his bones set back correctly. However, after experiencing Mariku's death glare and the hikaris' pleas, she reluctantly let Marik leave the Hospital Wing after he'd promised to rest as much as possible.

All three hikaris had now gone to sleep, leaving their darker halves to dwell on what had been discovered.

"When I went into Marik's mind to save him, I could mostly see shadows surrounding him."

"I saw the same with Ryou, but I managed to weasel a thing or two out of him. He said he was fighting a voice which was demanding to enter his memories…"

"That would explain why they were all thrashing madly. They were trying to protect themselves and their memories. But whatever those shadows were, they were too strong for our Lights. Had we arrived but a moment later, I'm afraid they would have gone insane…"

Yami paused, letting the end of his sentence unfinished. They would have gone insane… or worse.

The following days followed without much incident. Draco still hung with them, but more often than not he would avoid their gaze. Other than that, no attacks occurred, and both Blaise and Pansy had kept their promises, so their secret was still safe for the time being. Exams were approaching fast though, which unsurprisingly resulted into more armloads of work for the fifth years.

Divination changed completely after Professor Umbridge publicly fired the divination teacher. Professor Trelawney had burst into tears in front of the whole school, under the High Inquisitor's triumphant eyes as she demanded her to leave Hogwarts. Only Dumbledore's intervention prevented her leave, inviting the weeping professor back to her room, and presenting the new teacher to those gathered around him.

Much to the High Inquisitor's annoyance, their substitute teacher was a centaur. A half-breed. Professor Umbridge hated half-breeds.

Little Yugi was fascinated by Professor Firenze. Not only because of what he was, but also because of the way he taught, and what he taught. Instead of focusing solely on the ways centaurs would try to foresee the future, he showed them how uncertain the future could be.

Though it didn't really surprise him... After all, even the Millennium Tauk had been wrong.

Marik yawned as his head hit the table. "I give up… Too sleepy to finish the stupid assignment…"

Yugi rolled his eyes and shook the taller boy's shoulder. "At least help me find that book on magical creatures, then you can go to sleep."

Marik growled as he was pulled off his chair and pushed towards one of the shelves of the library. "Well if you weren't so damn short you probably wouldn't even need my help!" Yugi decided to ignore the comment.

"Hurry up Ron!" Hermione whispered as she pulled her friend into the library after Ernie and Hannah. The two Hufflepuffs rushed to one side of the library whereas the Gryffindors hurried towards the other. Other members of the DA soon joined the prefects as they hid among the bookshelves.

"How do you think Umbridge figured us out?" Ron asked as he tried to catch his breath.

"Someone must have tipped her off." Hermione answered, eyes never leaving the double doors of the library. "Someone was absent today… didn't you notice?" Ron was about to answer when they spotted several Slytherins entering. Realising his flushed face was a dead give-away, the youngest Weasley boy ducked behind a shelf, followed by Hermione.

"No Marik, not that one! The one with the red binding!" Marik resisted the urge to whack the smaller teen over the head as he finally found the book Yugi needed. Of course, it just had to be on the top shelf!

It suddenly occurred to him that Yugi could have just levitated the book instead of asking him. In that case, the Pharaoh's hikari had woken him up for nothing.

"Yugi…" he started with a growl, when suddenly yelps and curses resounded in the Library.

"What the…?" Both turned their heads towards the side of the aisle, where they saw a fourth year student from Hufflepuff soaring through the airs. Eyes widening in shock, the two transferees immediately rushed towards the girl's side.

"Hey, are you alright?" Yugi immediately asked as he helped her sit up. The girl opened her mouth to speak, but no sound would escape her throat. She had been jinxed with a mute charm. "Hold on, I'll fix it!" Yugi started as he drew out his wand, but before he could utter the counter-curse a heavy weight collided with both him and the girl, forcing them both flat against the marble floor. He heard a shatter a few feet away from them, and when the weight on him finally lifted he looked up.

The first thing he saw was the glass shards from the window in front of him. Then, spinning round, he realised the weight that had crashed against them had actually been Marik. The Egyptian had forced them down to avoid a spell sent their way.

Marik helped his smaller friend back up as his eyes glanced the way the spell had come from. He could see several students in what seemed to be a heated fight, with curses and jinxes whizzing all over the Library. Madam Pince was yelling for them to stop, her own wand drawn out as she tried to separate two students, a Slytherin and a Ravenclaw.

"Come on we're leaving!" He said as he and Yugi helped the girl back to her feet and all three raced towards the exit of the library.

"Protego!" Hermione screamed as a Slytherin sent a curse her way. The beam of magic bounced off an invisible barrier before hitting a table a few feet away. Ron performed a disarming spell on said Slytherin before grabbing Hermione's arm to pull her with him across the aisle. Both ducked as another spell whizzed over their heads, only to hit the shelf behind them, making it shake and topple over. Hermione lifted her wand to prevent the bookcase from crushing them, but books started to fall from it, hitting the both of them. They both brought their arms over their heads instinctively.

"Wingardium Leviosa!" A voice yelled. When the bookcase didn't hit them, Ron peeped an eye open to see the heavy piece of furniture stopped in midair right over their heads.

"Get out of the way you idiots!" Turning their heads towards the source of the voice, the two Gryffindors saw one of the two blond Egyptians yelling at them angrily. Beside him stood the smallest transferee, wand pointed towards the case above them, sweat trickling down his face as he fought to keep the heavy object afloat. A girl from the DA also stood beside them.

"Move!" yelled Marik Ishtar. "He won't be able to hold on much longer!"

Taking the hint, the two prefects rushed away from danger, just as Yugi's concentration slipped, which in turn sent the bookcase crashing down on the floor. They soon joined the rest of the students rushing towards the exit, leaving the battlefield turned Library behind them.

"And then we ran out of there… I don't know what caused Umbridge's Squad to attack other students like that…"

Mariku's eyes narrowed in thought as Yugi finished explaining to them what had happened in the Library. He heard Ryou mumble under his breath as the hikari wiped the blood from Marik's arm clean, a rather large scratch he had gotten when trying to shield his smaller friend from a spell shot his way.

The door leading out of the room swung open to reveal a rather gloomy looking ex-Pharaoh. All eyes turned to watch him, except maybe Bakura, who kept glaring out the window.

"I've got some bad news…" started Yami. "And then, I've got some worse news…"

Silence greeted his words as they waited for him to continue. Even Bakura tilted his head slightly, showing he too was listening.

"Dumbledore's gone… I'm not sure why, but the Ministry was about to arrest him, he had to leave."

"Oh great, my sister is going to love that…" growled Marik. "The one person she trusts to keep us out of trouble, and poof, vanished!"

Yugi glanced up with concern.

"I'm more worried about the other students… As long as he was in charge, the school was safe."

"Apparently not safe enough!" The small duellist nearly jumped out of his skin at Mariku's sneer. "If you three were attacked within these safe walls while he was here, I don't even want to imagine what would have happened if he wasn't!"

Silence followed that statement, stretching over them uncomfortably. Mariku knew he had made a touchy remark around the hikaris, but he didn't care. He just made the evidence clear. Wherever they were to go, wherever they stayed, no matter how hard they tried to protect themselves, they were never safe.

Bakura, who had kept rather silent, finally tore his eyes away from the dripping rain to face the others.

"Say Pharaoh, you were talking about worse news… though I can't think of anything worse except maybe something around the lines of the Shadow Realm exploding into chaos, but we would have felt that…"

"That would be good news, Bakura…" muttered Mariku, earning himself a glare from the white-haired spirit.

Yami shook his head. "Nothing to do with the Shadow Realm…"

"Then what is it? What could be worse than… unless… oh no… no fucking way…" Bakura's eyes narrowed into slits. "Don't tell me that that… that disfigured toad…"

The look in Yami's eyes was enough to confirm his suspicions.

"She is… She's been appointed Headmistress…"

The next morning, they discovered that notices had been added overnight, each proving what Yami had told them to be true. Professor Umbridge had indeed become Headmistress of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And she didn't waste time to take measures to ensure her power over the school. For starters, she rounded up a couple of "trustworthy" students to form what she called the Inquisitorial Squad, whose purpose was to more or less spy over the students and to report every "strange" behaviour. It didn't surprise the transferees much when they discovered that most, if not all of the members of the Squad, were Slytherins. Draco, who would still avoid their gazes at times, even offered them to apply, saying it would be best for them to stay on Umbridge's good side.

"Like Hell we would!" had answered Mariku. "She's too nosy for her own good, stuffing her nose into our business and all. There's no way we're going to work for that oversized toad!"

What he failed to mention was the fact that they would even go as far as breaking the rules, just to piss her off. Marik had already set some Dungbombs against Umbridge's office door, and Yami was itching to try a spell or two on the caretaker. Bakura was obviously preparing some kind of stunt, and even Ryou and Yugi were willing to play dirty tricks.

Somehow, they got overtaken by the craziest set of twins the school had ever known.

It had happened on the day following Dumbledore's departure. The transferees were sitting in Flitwick's classroom practising Charms when a Catherine wheel whizzed into the room, causing most of the girls in their class to shriek. The short professor, although shocked at first, quickly relaxed and asked Yami to go warn the Headmistress. When the former Pharaoh returned to his seat a few minutes later, he couldn't stop himself from snickering.

"You guys should see the mess in the corridors! Fireworks everywhere; and Umbridge running around in circles trying to contain them!"

Indeed, the scene was priceless. After some time, the students were all sent to their dorms, some professors judging "it was impossible to work in these conditions". Ducking under dragon-like flames and shrieking rockets, the transferees rushed laughing to their common room, leaving their portrait slightly open, enough to see the rest of the show. They particularly enjoyed seeing Umbridge and Filch sprinting past the painting, shrieking as they tried to escape a phoenix-shaped firework.

Even Bakura had to admit (although he never did it aloud) that Fred and George Weasley knew how to cause mayhem.

It was nearly a disappointment when the twins took their leave after turning a corridor into a swamp, even though they made a wonderful exit. Really, slipping through Umbridge's fingers the way they did was brilliant.

"Wish I had done that!" Sighed Marik as they went to class the next day. "It would have been cool!"

"Then why don't you do it already?" Had asked a grouchy Bakura. "Nothing's stopping you, you know!"

"I know!" The Egyptian smiled. "But I doubt Isis would have been happy about it. Plus, I don't like copying. And it's fun to make fun of the old hag!"

The Weasley brother's escape was whispered in the corridors for the next few days, every student admiring their nerve. Even Pansy said, although she later would deny it, that the twins had had class.

However, much to the Slytherins' annoyance, they were soon the targets of many pranks. Those of the Inquisitorial Squad had to go frequently to the Hospital Wing after being the target of a curse. Warrington's skin had contracted some sort of disease, Crabbe had broken his nose after having his legs locked in a binding curse at the top of a flight of stairs, and Pansy missed an entire day of school, sobbing, antlers sprouting from her head.

Some of the bolder students (or the plain stupid ones, as would say Mariku) tried to jinx the transferees, since they were "teaming up with the Slytherins and the Inquisitorial Squad". They failed miserably. The spell immediately rebounded against the casters, ensuring them an immediate trip to the Hospital Wing.

The Slytherins' mood didn't increase a few weeks later. During the Quidditch match that opposed the Slytherins to the Hufflepuffs, they had screamed and encouraged their teams until their ears were throbbing from all the noise and their throats sore from all the screaming, but it had been pointless. Draco didn't see the Bludger until it was too late, allowing the Hufflepuff seeker to snatch the Snitch.

It turned for the worse when the Gryffindors won the cup a few weeks later, even without the help of Harry Potter as Seeker and of the Weasley twins as Beaters.

Now that the Quidditch Cup had been won, the students suddenly felt the stress of exams gaining on them. Although no more homework was piled on them, the evenings were used to study for the exams as much as possible, students panicking over every piece of information their minds failed to remember. Blaise, Pansy and Draco spent most of their spare time studying with the transferees in their common room, which was far less crowded and more relaxing than the Slytherin one.

And so, the OWLs were finally upon them

The morning of the first exam, the fifth and seventh years were trying to study one last time during breakfast, or, in some cases, trying to get some sleep.

Draco was muttering under his breath while skimming over a book on Charms, half aware of the jam dripping from his toast to his fingers. Pansy was nearly in hysterics, asking questions over and over again to an unnerved Blaise, who was trying very hard not to snap at her for stressing him out. Yami was a lot calmer as he watched them make a fool of themselves, quietly munching on an apple. Yugi, on the other hand, wouldn't stop reading his notes.

"You'll do fine, Hikari, you're an expert in Charms." Yugi looked up briefly before turning his attention back to his notes.

"What if I mess everything up? What if I forget something? What if they ask something I…"

"Yugi!" Yami interrupted. "You won't forget. I'm sure you'll have better marks than those two at least." He smirked, pointing towards Bakura and Mariku, both sleeping with their heads lying on top of their arms.

Marik muttered under his breath and nudged his darker half harshly, earning himself a glare.

"What?"

"Wake up and help me learn this stuff!" The tamer Egyptian was twitching with annoyance, a book in his hand. He poked Mariku once again, forcing the psychotic teenager to sit up with a snarl, disturbing Bakura in the process.

"Stop it you two, I'm trying to sleep!" He muttered before looking over at Ryou. The boy hadn't touched at any of his breakfast, too busy cramming more info into his mind. The spirit growled as he pulled the book away from Ryou.

"Stop studying and get something in your stomach! I don't want you to collapse in the middle of the exam from lack of food!"

Ryou tried to snatch the book back from his other half, but Bakura stuffed the book into his bag and filled Ryou's plate with some strawberry jammed toast and his glass with orange juice. The hikari sighed and complied, after complaining about the fact that he wasn't that hungry anyways.

They had their first written exam just after breakfast and the practical exams after lunch. They were called by groups of four, the first group being composed of Hannah Abbot, Bakura Akefia, Yami Atem and Ryou Bakura. They didn't come back when the second group passed, so the others had to wait patiently for their turn, feeling more and more stressed as the minutes passed by. Mariku Ishtar and Marik Ishtar went after some time together, soon followed by Draco Malfoy and Yugi Mutou. Pansy didn't have their luck, being placed in the same group as the Patil twins and Harry Potter, while Blaise Zabini was left in the last group with Ronald Weasley.

Yami, Yugi, Blaise and Pansy felt happier after the exam was over, all sure of having passed the exam with ease. Bakura and Mariku couldn't care less whether they managed or not, more interested by the fact that Mariku's teacup had started screaming like a banshee for no particular reason. For that matter, Marik was purposely ignoring his darker half, having lost his concentration while levitating his glass at the same moment, thus sending it smashing on top of his examiner's head.

"I'm going to kill him!" The Egyptian rambled on and on to Ryou. "If I don't pass that exam, Isis is going to lecture me on how much I should have studied more and not let Mariku get the better of me and…"

"Marik… I'm sure the examiner won't count that, everyone must have been surprised by the screams…"

"I don't care! I'm not talking to him right now!" He muttered back. Draco found that pretty amusing, as he later saw the taller Egyptian wrapping his arm around the smaller one's waist, without receiving any kind of protests.

Transfigurations the next day went well for most of them, although Pansy left the room in tears, overwhelmed with stress. It took Draco a whole ten minutes to calm her down, pulling her in his arms to usher her words of comfort.

Yugi and Ryou would have helped him reassure the crying girl, had they not been too busy separating Yami and Bakura. The thief had found it amusing when the examiner had asked him to turn his turtle into a hedgehog, and had transfigured it successfully, only with the spikes sporting some colours, namely red, black, and yellow. Obviously, the Pharaoh did not find this amusing.

Herbology wasn't really a problem, albeit everyone was sure Mariku had failed the exam when his Carnivorous Rose chocked to death, the Egyptian having fed him the wrong seeds.

"At least it made the exam a lot more interesting!" He grinned, creeping out Blaise, Pansy and Draco in the process. "It made some funny coughing noises! Sweet!"

On Thursday, the students had their Defence against the Dark Arts test. Things turned out rather well, if you didn't count the Boggart incident.

Bakura and Yami were glad that Hannah was the only student present when Ryou's Boggart turned into an evil looking Bakura, his eyes gleaming as red as Zork's. The girl barely noticed, though, too busy staring in horror at her own Boggart, which had taken the form of a creepy hag shrieking with laughter. Ryou gathered his spirits long enough to get rid of his creature, a black shadow falling away from the false Bakura, who looked confused at first then kicked the shadow of Zork away from him before smirking at Ryou as he vanished.

Mariku nearly left his exanimation spot to run to Marik's side when the smaller Egyptian's Boggart took the form of his father, a burning dagger in his hand and a sinister smile on his face. As for Yugi, Draco noticed the confusion on his examiner's face when the puzzle collapsed at his feet into pieces, only to mend itself once the short duellist uttered the counter curse.

When Blaise finally left the Hall at the end of the exam, he stopped slightly confused at the sight before him. Ryou was hiding his face against Bakura's shoulder, his darker half's arms wrapped tightly around him. Marik was sitting in Mariku's lap, shaking, the latter rocking him softly while kissing his cheek soothingly. Yugi didn't seem to fare any better, hugging Yami as if his life depended on it.

"What happened?" He asked turning towards Draco and Pansy. "Did they mess up?"

Draco snorted, putting his arm loosely around Pansy's waist.

"Boggarts… I think..."

Blaise lifted his eyebrow at him but didn't press the matter.

They had a break after that, until Monday came with their exam on Potions. Nothing bad happened, although Bakura, Marik and Mariku were itching to make either their cauldrons explode or their potions turned into a mist of toxic gas. Luckily, they avoided it. Bakura because Ryou was in the same room at the time, Mariku because Marik was with him, and Marik because he was afraid of Isis' wrath if he failed the exam over a blowing cauldron.

Care of Magical Creatures went rather smoothly, Draco being highly relieved to see that no Hippogriffs were used for the examination. Pansy wasn't as confident as the boys, but was sure to have been able to successfully choose the diet for a sick Unicorn, whereas Blaise was sure his choice of diet would have finished the creature off.

Ryou left the Divination exam sounding quite cheerful convinced that he had passed. Yami didn't seem as confident, which would have given Bakura the opportunity to make fun of him had he not been too preoccupied by what he had seen in his crystal ball.

A group of dark robed men, holding three prisoners. One with sandy blonde hair and tanned skin, apparently unconscious. Another with spiky red, black and golden hair, trying to kick his opponent with his feet dangling a foot from the floor. And a white haired boy, trying to wiggle away from his captor's grip.

Their astronomy exam was to take place that evening, once the night had settled in. Marik could be heard muttering softly against some of the stars he couldn't recognize, annoying those within hearing range in the process.

"Young man, you are in the middle of an examination, please be quiet or you shall have to leave the…"

The examiner didn't finish his sentence as he was interrupted by what sounded like an angry roar from across the Castle grounds. Everyone looked up from their star-charts, glancing over to see what was happening, but the examiner ushered them to continue with the test.

BANG!

This time, even the examiners turned their heads towards Hagrid's cabin. The half-giant seemed to be fighting off a stunning spell produced by several wizards. Hermione Granger let out a shout, and most of the girls were covering their mouths with their hands as they saw more spells sent Hagrid's way.

"What the Hell do they think they're doing?" Muttered Yami, standing up as if to leave the tower to rush to the Grounds, but he was stopped by one of the examiners.

"Young man, this is an exam!"

More shouts and screams came from the edge of the forest, Hagrid seemingly turning berserk when one spell hit his dog. Soon, another figure left the castle to rush towards the group.

"How dare you!" The figure shouted, and the students recognized McGonagall's voice. "How dare you!" She went up to the wizards, ordering them to stop, when suddenly she was hit by four stunning spells. Many girls screamed as the professor collapsed.

The examiners yelled in shock at the attack and didn't notice Yami, Bakura and Mariku leaping to their feet to rush outside. As they ran down the stairs and towards the Doors of the castle, they could hear Hagrid bellowing.

"COWARDS! RUDDY COWARDS!" They rushed outside and sprinted towards McGonagall's fallen body. Yami grabbed her wrist, feeling for a pulse.

"She's alive…" He sighed with relief as he and Bakura worked together to hoist the aged professor up, careful not to shake her whereas Mariku seemed ready to march towards the remaining wizard and Umbridge. Hagrid was nowhere in sight, having apparently escaped after knocking out most of his assailants.

"Mariku, don't do anything stupid!" Warned Yami. "If you get expelled, you won't be able to protect your hikari!"

"And you're NOT attacking that woman without me!" Growled Bakura, earning himself a glare from the Pharaoh as they started moving back to the castle. Mariku cursed and rushed up in front of them, to warn Snape and Pomfrey. The two adults came rushing with the Egyptian as soon as the two spirits had reached the Entrance, Snape immediately taking over to carry McGonagall. As Yami informed Madam Pomfrey over what had happened, some students came down from the Astronomy Tower, mostly Slytherins as they had to pass through the Entrance to reach their common room. Snape had already left in a hurry to bring the fallen professor to the Hospital Wing.

The hikaris rushed over to Mariku and Bakura, followed more slowly by their three Slytherin friends.

"The examiners didn't even notice you had already left when they let us out. How is Professor McGonagall? Is she alright?"

"Yugi… You're going to have a heart attack if you don't slow down." Muttered Mariku.

The smaller duellist glared at him but took his advice, stopping to catch his breath.

"She should be alright…" Answered Yami as he walked back over to his friends. "But I doubt she'll be teaching until the end of the year. Four stunning spells! It could have killed her!"

"Still think Umbridge is a saint?" spat Bakura as he turned towards the three members of the Inquisitorial Squad. Draco turned his head away with a blank look, while Blaise muttered something incoherent under his breath. Only Pansy had the decency to look slightly worried over the Gryffindors' Head teacher.

The students who had witnessed the scene had had a hard time going to sleep that night. Not only was it already past one in the morning when they all reached their common rooms, but they kept talking about what had happened. The Gryffindors were the last ones to be able to find some rest.

The following morning was exam-free, but instead of taking the opportunity to catch up on some sleep after the night's events, most of the students had planned on doing some last-minute studying. For on that afternoon, they were to have the exam on the most boring subject of the year, through which very few students had managed to take notes: History of Magic.

Yugi was one of the only ones not panicking over the exams, for once. He had just received a letter, which had apparently been searched through by the High Inquisitor, judging by the battered look of the owl that had delivered it. Hopefully, the Toad had turned crazy trying to decipher Jounouchi's messy handwriting, only to read a load of gibberish. If only she knew the language used had been a mixture of Egyptian and japanese...

Yugi and folks,

There has been another attack recently. This time, the target was Pegasus. He appeared at Seto's door sometime a few nights ago, unconscious. He's alright, nothing serious, but we're not taking any chances. Shizuka, Anzu and Honda are staying here at the mansion with your grandfather and Pegasus, to stay safe. I'm taking the next flight to England with Seto and Mokuba, and we'll wait in London while you finish your exams. If anything happens, send us a message, and we'll be here straight away.

Stay safe, little buddy! Don't go around trying to save the world!

Jou

Marik chewed on his quill as he tried searching for the questions he was sure to know the answer. Most of the first part of his parchmentwasn't very detailed, he only remember bits and pieces that Ryou had muttered a few nights earlier while studying. One question did catch his attention. It had something to do about the breach of magic in Egypt when Tuthankamen's tomb had been uncovered. Remembering nearly every detail of the story, he didn't waste time writing everything down.

He had just finished a small drabble about the Great Goblin Wars (he only remembered most of the names because he found them so ridiculous he thought it was hilarious) when a terrifying scream jerked everyone away from their examination paper in time to see Harry Potter collapse on his side, pressing his hands to his forehead feverishly as he yelled in pain. Those sitting nearest to him jumped to their feet in surprise, Draco and Yugi being two of them. The Patil twins screamed in fright as did most of the girls, and one of the professors in charge of the examination all but ran to the student's side to help him back up and drag him away from the Great Hall.

/What was that all about? / He asked Mariku. He noticed his darker half shrug from the corner of his eyes.

/How am I supposed to know? / Mariku growled back, before turning his head to the front of the Hall, where he could see Yami, Bakura and Ryou turning their heads trying to see what the commotion was about. He mouthed the word 'Potter' to them and stared back at his paper.

After all, whatever happened to the Golden Boy was none of his concern.

If only he knew how wrong he was...

End of chapter 11. Finally, after a year probably of silence. I'm hopeless.

Hope you guys enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Thanks for reading!